Horseshoe



T. L. TIPTON.

(No Model.)

HORSESHOE.

Patented Jan. 27,1891.

ATFOR/VEYS a 00., PHOTO-LITHO.,WABHING1ON n c ilinrrnt) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS LUKE TIPTON, OF JERUSALEM, OHIO.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,481, dated January 27, 1891.

Application filed September 23, 1890. Serial No. 865,902. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS LUKE 'lir'rou, of Jerusalem, in the county of Monroe and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Horseshoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to what are known as rolling horseshoes, such,for instance, as are used on the front feet of fast horsesthat is, horses whether ridden or driven that travel at a quick speed and necessarily assume an attitude of reaching ahead, as it has been termed, and whose attitude and step require the fore feet to be specially shod. Hence the use of the rolling shoe.

hilyinvention consistsin the novel construction of such a shoe, substantially as hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of a horseshoe embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view upon the line 2 2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a transverse sectional view upon the line 3 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a view in perspective of the shoe as applied to a horses hoof.

Prior to describing the details of the shoes construction attention will be called to the movement or action of the born or crust of the horses foot. The horn or crust is caused to widen by the weight of the horse and the Hare of the crust orhorn combined, com menoing to spread first at the heel and continuing to spread to the toe in proportion as the frog tapers from heel to toe, and when the sides or quarters are out to their full extent they stand straight up and down with a slight inclination backward, which must be considered,for it held in or forced forward the same will cause bruises or corns, and these naturally will make horses break when they are pacing or trotting. In view of these facts and to enable a horse to move forward with ease a rolling shoe is required.

The usual mode of making a rolling shoe is by turningits heel up, leaving the shoe full underneath, which forms a shoe somewhat after the shape of a partial hoop, and the foot mustuecessarily be trimmed the same shape to fit the shoe, so as to obtain the roll underneath. By so doing the heels are forced forward at every step. Now this difficulty I find can only be avoided by the use of a shoe made to turn both down and up at the heel, with a slight bevel outward on top from the heelnails back to the point or ends of the heel to provide for the widening of the hoofs heel ends or quarters. To do this there must be an extra thickness given to the shoe at or just back of the nail-hole portion, as shown at b in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and from or near this point each heel portion of the shoe curves or inclines both downward and upward to the outer ends of the heel, as shown at c and (Z, and has a slight bevel laterally outward given it on the top, where the heel part thus droops, as shown more clearly at e in Fig. Otherwise the shoe is made as usual on top. This drooping of the shoe at c and its bevel outward, as at e, provides for the lengthening and widening of the foots heel or quarters and complies with nature, while theadditional thickness of the shoe at b and the turning up of the heel ends of the shoe underneath, as at d, makes the roll of the shoe complete without opposing the requirements of nature.

The toe part f of theshoe may be of the usual construction, as also the groove 9 on its under side and nail-holes 8.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The within-described horseshoe, made of increased thickness back of its nail-holes, as at b, and with its heel ends or portions from or near such points of increased thickness, and to the outer extremities of the heel ends constructed on their upper surfaces to droop downward,as at c, and to bevel or incline laterally outward, as at e, and to curve or turn upward beneath,as at d, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

THOMAS LUKE TIPTON.

Witnesses W. J. BERRY, THOMAS YARNALL. 

